The Acoustics Lab offers projects in the fundamental physics of the voice and of musical instruments. These are usually developed in collaboration with the student, because a project on instrument X is more interesting for a player of X and because the physics of women's voices is qualitatively different from that of men's voices.

Prof. Tinney undertakes research in the search for, and study of, exoplanets (planets orbiting other stars) and brown dwarfs (failed stars that share many properties with exoplanets). In support of these research programs he is a leader of the FunnelWeb spectroscopic survey of the southern sky, and head of the Veloce planet search facility at the 3.9m Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT). He uses telescopes in Australia (AAT) and Chile (6.5m Magellan and 8m ESO Very Large Telescope), as well as data from NASA's TESS planet search mission. The project information below is a snapshot of current activities - students interested in this science are encouraged to come and talk further with him for more details, and other projects in this area.